i’ve been learning latin by myself using D’Ooge’s book and i do like it ! it’s simple, good exercises and very useful for anyone who doesn’t know so much of grammar (even if english isn’t their mothertongue… spanish’s mine )
but…
i’ve been having problems lately; i’m on lesson XVII (before conjugations), and i see there’s a lot of vocabulary, declensions, etc, to learn (not a problem at all), but no enough exercises; i mean, D’Ooge only gives 8-10 exercises at the end of every lesson and i honestly think i’d need more to memorize / to learn correctly all that vocabulary / syntax
i do know i’d go better with my latin if i’d have a teacher… but i can’t right now, until next year (january / february), so i’m doing MY BEST (seriously) to learn all i can before… my exercises go well, i have only a few problems with declensions or sentences order (looking at the answer key), so i think i’m learning good all the lessons, i just need practise
is there any website with useful exercises to go through ?
is it necessary i got another textbook ? maybe wheelock’s textbook AND workbook ?
There are some /optimi/ exercises at Quia: http://www.quia.com/dir/latin/, and the great thing is, they’re not that dull. You could always decline nouns and such in your free time, of course, but that kills.
As for the Wheelock text, it depends. From the sound of it, O’Doge and Wheelock have whole different approaches. Wheelock introduces verbs practically as soon as he introduces nouns, so if you don’t have any verbs in your repetoire yet I doubt Wheelock’s exercises would help.
i know, but i’ve seen a lot of wheelock’s comments on how good it is (and the thread “how bad it is” here in the forum ), that i’ve started to think about buying it seriously
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